By Mary Davis
'This e-book is perfect for its goal. I basically want it have been to be had within the many years whilst i used to be educating exchange union courses.' Jim Fryth, Labour background Review
'At final a readable and available common background of the labour stream ... hugely recommended.' Manchester TUC Newsletter
--A revised, up-to-date and accelerated variation of this vintage feminist account of British labour history--
Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? strains the background of the British Labour flow from its beginnings on the onset of industrialisation via its improvement inside a capitalist society, as much as the top of the twentieth-century. Written by way of a number one activist within the labour circulation, the booklet redresses the stability in a lot labour heritage writing. It examines where of girls and the impression of racism and sexism in addition to offering a severe research of the rival ideologies which performed a job within the asymmetric improvement of the labour movement.
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